This is an analysis of Prayer For A Profusion Of Sunflowers by Amy Lowell.

Send sunflowers!
With my turkey-bone whistle…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AXaaXXaA
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 1110 0110110 111001 01010110 11011010 10110 11010111 1110
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8